Losing the battle of wits
The great temptation for Republicans is to speak and act like Democrats, go with the flow, bend with the trend… and to stand for nothing much at all.
Yes, we’re in an election year, and Republicans will promise to do all sorts of things and spend all sorts of money… and then if by some miracle they win, they all turn into John Boehner and get slapped around by Biden and Obama. Maybe they think “If only we can get the nooze media to like us!”
But another Democrat presidency might kill us.